low-entropy

He lived in the last half of the 19th century and proposed that the low-entropy (high order) universe that we live in is the result of a random fluctuation in a larger, higher entropy (lower order) metaverse.

Nested Universe - Singularity Blog, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Cosmology, Science and Technology 2008

Remember back in the pre-Boltzmann days, entropy was understood as a measurement of the uselessness of a certain amount of energy; low-entropy forms of energy could be put to useful work, such as powering an engine or grinding flour, while high-entropy forms of energy just sat there.

Evolution and the Second Law Sean 2009

The hard part is figuring out just what we mean when we say that the life forms here on Earth are “low-entropy.”

Evolution and the Second Law Sean 2009

In Resources, Environment, and Economics (1978) he describes the inconsistency of the closed, cyclic model of standard economics with the First Law of Thermodynamics, which states that the low-entropy matter and energy that enter the economic process as useful raw materials must ultimately leave the process and return to nature as high-entropy wastes.

Ayres, Robert U. 2009

For example, it is often suggested that the Second Law derives from the fact that the initial microstate of the universe is as random as it can be, given its low-entropy macrostate.

A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis) 2007

In Resources, Environment, and Economics (1978) he describes the inconsistency of the closed, cyclic model of standard economics with the First Law of Thermodynamics, which states that the low-entropy matter and energy that enter the economic process as useful raw materials must ultimately leave the process and return to nature as high-entropy wastes.

Ayres, Robert U. 2009

The energy we get from the Sun is of a low-entropy, useful form, while the energy we radiate back out into space has a much higher entropy.

Evolution and the Second Law Sean 2009

There's always lots of new low-entropy energy coming in to drive things.

Rabett Run EliRabett 2009

Scale refers to the physical volume of the throughput, the flow of matter – energy from the environment as low-entropy raw materials and back to the environment as high-entropy wastes (see Figure 1.1).

An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 3 2008

Furthermore, regulatory approaches were not proving equal to the task of coping with the vast throughput of mass and energy with which industrial economies were converting low-entropy inputs into high-entropy pollutants.

An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 4 2008